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Heck, it could just be the latest Hollywood blockbuster that shows us all \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Bz9e0PGSDeU?t=44s\" target=\"_blank\">tumbling into a chasm cracked open by the Big One\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the reason, when it comes to the hope that Californians may feel about the state turning the corner on years of tough times, a new poll makes it clear: Not so fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The mixed poll ratings for the state's direction and the economic outlook are indicators that the recovery from the Great Recession is still very much a work in progress,\" says Mark Baldassare, pollster and president of the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=1153\" target=\"_blank\">PPIC's newest poll\u003c/a> offers a new but familiar glimpse of just how crestfallen Californians seem when it comes to the road ahead. Only 40 percent of likely voters think the state is headed in the right direction, a 9-point decline since March and 4 points lower than all adults who were surveyed this same time in 2014. When the poll is broadened to all adults, it's more of a split decision; but here, too, PPIC finds a decline in optimism about the direction of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of news reports have made clear that the official ranks of the jobless are declining -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.edd.ca.gov/About_EDD/pdf/nwsrel15-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">29,500 new jobs in April alone\u003c/a> -- but Californians seem to think the economy is headed for more \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2126355/\" target=\"_blank\">San Andrea\u003c/a>s\"-like shaking. Where 52 percent of adults surveyed by PPIC in March thought good economic times were ahead, it's now down to 48 percent; likely voters are evenly split at 44 percent. Bay Area residents are the most optimistic (57 percent), while those in the Inland Empire (35 percent) and the Central Valley (43 percent) are the least optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the drought has replaced jobs and the economy as the most important issue in the minds of Californians (39 percent of adults say water issues, 20 percent pick the economy), it's possible that there's a nexus between the two. Even then, it's worth noting that there's a relatively narrow gap between the two issues, just 9 points, in the state's population center of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard not to view these poll results with at least a limited political lens, given that a statewide election is right around the corner. For starters, PPIC finds a troubling 61 percent of those surveyed who think they can trust state officials in Sacramento to do what's right \"only some of the time,\" a fairly consistent pessimism in surveys dating back more than a decade. \u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">PPIC's Baldassare says those findings make it pretty clear that for all of the relative improvement in the state's bottom line, lawmakers aren't viewed as deserving the credit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whatever government is going to be doing,\" he says, \"Californians are going to approach it with a bit of skepticism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the political implications of the collective gloom could extend beyond legislative races to some of the issues now being pondered as potential 2016 ballot measures. Extend \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2014/10/28/governor-wont-push-to-extend-prop-30-sale-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">2012's temporary taxes\u003c/a>? 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"content": "\u003cp>Gentrification, housing crisis, displacement — whatever term one uses, the gist is the same: The high cost of housing is pushing residents out of San Francisco. Theories on who is culpable for the cost increase abound, ranging from tech workers to tech buses to NIMBY activists to Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s a city supervisor to do when there are more and more people wanting to live in your district? If you’re David Campos, you propose a 45-day \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=52696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moratorium on market-rate \u003c/a>residential construction in the Mission District, which could be extended for up to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically about land preservation,” said Campos during an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201505290900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that also featured Supervisor Scott Wiener, who opposes the moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the entire Mission, there are only 18 units where you can actually build affordable housing,’ said Campos, who went on to explain that those 18 land parcels are large enough to fit the minimum 40 units needed to qualify for federal funding. 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It means in-law units — that’s an important approach and I think the best use of the buildings that we have. It means creating group housing, it means creating market-rate housing, affordable housing, all kinds of housing. That’s how we’re going to solve the crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener argued that the proposed moratorium would actually raise prices and lead to more displacement of longtime Mission residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want to move into the Mission because it’s an amazing neighborhood,’ said Wiener. “And they’re going to come, whether or not we build any new housing. And if we don’t build the new housing, we’re going to see the pressure cooker in the Mission become an even worse pressure cooker. There’s going to be more displacement, more competition for housing, and that is going to hurt exactly the people that we all want to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said that reducing market-rate housing projects ultimately reduces funds available for lower and, particularly, middle-income housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The easiest affordable housing to build is for low income, which is up to 50 percent of area median income and that’s because you can access federal tax credits and it’s a 3-to-1, 4-to-1 match,” explained Wiener. “Financially, it’s the easiest to pursue. The hardest [to build] is moderate housing, for people making 80, 90, 100 or so percent of area median income, because we don’t get those subsidies, so that requires local resources. 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"content": "\u003cp>When people call up Leigh Jerrard, founder of Greywater Corps, they're greeted with a recorded message: \"Note that we are overwhelmed with inquiries right now, so it may be a while before we get back to you. But have faith.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerrard's company helps homeowners with the complicated process of installing their own graywater systems. The system takes drainage from showers or washing machines and uses it to water lawns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds like a great idea now. But six years ago, when Jerrard started the company, few people were interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Up until about a year ago, it's been pretty slow,\" Jerrard says. \"[But] things started to pick up. Last year was the first year we were solvent. Within the last month or two, the phone has been ringing off the hook.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In between interviewing to add another employee and another site visit, Jerrard managed to squeeze in an initial consultation for Lisa Mann at her craftsman-style home in Pasadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about an hour of dispensing practical advice and sharing his water-use philosophy, Jerrard convinces Mann to jump on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sign me up,\" she says. \"I'm serious. We got to do this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watering with graywater will be more expensive and complicated than Mann initially thought. But to her, it's worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like the drought never ends. It's been here and it doesn't seem it is going away,\" she says. \"So we need to find ways to landscape and to be more efficient with our house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is also helping entrepreneurs such as Gayle Butensky. She started a drought-tolerant landscaping business five years ago. They specialize in using plants native to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People have been doing this for years and years and years,\" she says. \"It's just much more apparent now. Because once one person does, the next person sees it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butensky adds that going native doesn't mean sacrificing aesthetics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It doesn't have to look like a desert. It doesn't have to look like rocks. It can look like a nice garden.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All those native plants have to come from somewhere, which has made California Cactus Center a very popular shop these days. It's been in Molly Thongthiraj's family for 38 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we first started it was not mainstream, but now it is,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thongthiraj says because of the drought, business has never been better — up 20 percent since last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Gayle is one of her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know there's always been a significant client base for people who were always collectors of cactuses and succulents,\" he says. \"But I think now it's a necessity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also a cost-saver because of government incentives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Los Angeles started offering a $3.75 rebate on every square foot of grass that homeowners rip out and replace with a drought-friendly landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No company has benefited more than Turf Terminators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every time we think we've built the organization to a size where we think it's going to meet demand, demand just sort of jumps up and we have to grow again,\" says Julian Fox, the company's chief operating officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Turf Terminators started just 10 months ago, it had three full-time employees. Now it has more than 500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no end in sight, California's drought may present a long-term boost for local entrepreneurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=California%27s+Drought+Makes+It+Rain+Big+Bucks+For+Local+Businesses&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every day at sunrise, dozens of men deported by the U.S. government gather on a Tijuana street about 5 miles south of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contractors looking to hire cheap plumbers, electricians and construction workers pick them up from the stretch between a Costco and a Home Depot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206236498\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These men are trying to assimilate back into the working class of Mexico, but the country feels like an alien place for many of them. A rising number of the deportees had spent many years, sometimes decades, living illegally north of the border. They left behind families, jobs and homes when they were deported. 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Drug traffickers make the desert more dangerous, and some of the deportees fear being imprisoned in the U.S. because of repeat immigration violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they've chosen to stay and work in Tijuana, to be as close as possible to their families across the border in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hPMKiLra8A&w=640&h=360]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Jimenez Sanchez is hoping to pick up work in construction. He lived in the U.S. for 32 years. He was a licensed contractor, and built houses and paved roads in Orange County. Five years ago, he was deported following a drunken driving arrest. He left behind his wife and eight children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been cracking down on migrants who commit crimes while living illegally in the U.S., even those guilty of no more than a traffic violation. Last year, 40 percent of criminal deportees had committed misdemeanors in the U.S. Nearly half of all the deportees had clean records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his dusty, wheeled backpack, Jimenez carries an assortment of tools: a cement mixing tray, a round saw, a trowel, hammers and more. He purchased most of his equipment in Mexico so he could do any job offered to him. Like many other migrants, he was deported \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/12/10/369893574/some-deportees-return-to-mexico-but-their-stuff-stays-in-the-u-s\" rel=\"external\">without his belongings.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm illegal all over again here because I don't have any papers,\" he said. \"I don’t have anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mexico, Jimenez has no choice but to join the informal economy like most other deportees. He toils full days in the heat for the equivalent of $10 or $15. It’s not enough to pay rent and still eat, so he sleeps under a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10531730\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/CesarinTijuana-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Cesar Jimenez Sanchez has waited daily at this corner outside a Costco in Tijuana for the past five years, hoping to pick up odd jobs. 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He was deported following a DUI arrest, leaving behind a wife and eight children in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jimenez is 45. The average age of deportees has risen over time, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement records. Today, most deportees are older than 30. Undocumented immigrants in the United States have been \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/2014/09/03/as-growth-stalls-unauthorized-immigrant-population-becomes-more-settled/\" target=\"_blank\">living there longer\u003c/a>, so those who are deported now are more likely to have been long-term U.S. residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This poses a rising problem for those who want to reintegrate into the Mexican workforce. Age discrimination is rampant in Mexico, despite laws to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonio De La Peña Hernandez is 60. He lived in the U.S. from the age of 5 until he was deported at 55. He was a truck driver north of the border but has been unable to find a formal job in Mexico. He picks up trash off the street for a few pesos a day. He says he has been robbed and beaten by Mexicans who perceive him as an outsider. He speaks English better than Spanish. His face is gaunt from the weight he has lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he talks about his desire to work, De La Peña chokes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All my life I've been working, and now I don't know where to start,\" he said through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people in Tijuana who are trying to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that same day, at a migrant shelter called Desayunador Salesiano, De La Peña was reclining in a black leather chair, while a volunteer shaved off his salt-and-pepper beard and trimmed his hair. He said he hoped that cleaning up his look would improve his chances of getting a real job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrant shelters across Tijuana have been adapting their services to the changes in the deportee population, launching reintegration programs to help migrants find jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to offering a place to sleep and eat, shelters now offer classes in computer literacy, English and more. Many offer free haircuts so that deportees can prepare for job interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Casa del Migrante, the oldest migrant shelter in Tijuana, assists people in getting official documents such as birth certificates, setting up email addresses, writing resumes and improving their wardrobe with donated clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10531732\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Antonio de la Peña Hernandez, a deportee, gets a shave at a Tijuana migrant shelter called Desayunador Salesiano Padre Chava.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10531732\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio de la Peña Hernandez, a deportee, gets a shave at a Tijuana migrant shelter called Desayunador Salesiano Padre Chava. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Rev. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every day at sunrise, dozens of men deported by the U.S. government gather on a Tijuana street about 5 miles south of the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contractors looking to hire cheap plumbers, electricians and construction workers pick them up from the stretch between a Costco and a Home Depot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206236498&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206236498'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These men are trying to assimilate back into the working class of Mexico, but the country feels like an alien place for many of them. A rising number of the deportees had spent many years, sometimes decades, living illegally north of the border. They left behind families, jobs and homes when they were deported. The Obama administration has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/u-s-deportations-of-immigrants-reach-record-high-in-2013/\" target=\"_blank\">removed more than 2 million immigrants\u003c/a> since 2008, one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/ois_yb_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">largest deportation waves\u003c/a> in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, these men have lost hope of returning to the U.S. and are trying to find jobs in Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crossing has become too difficult. Smugglers are more expensive and unreliable. Border agents are more numerous. Drug traffickers make the desert more dangerous, and some of the deportees fear being imprisoned in the U.S. because of repeat immigration violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they've chosen to stay and work in Tijuana, to be as close as possible to their families across the border in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3hPMKiLra8A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3hPMKiLra8A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Jimenez Sanchez is hoping to pick up work in construction. He lived in the U.S. for 32 years. He was a licensed contractor, and built houses and paved roads in Orange County. Five years ago, he was deported following a drunken driving arrest. He left behind his wife and eight children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been cracking down on migrants who commit crimes while living illegally in the U.S., even those guilty of no more than a traffic violation. Last year, 40 percent of criminal deportees had committed misdemeanors in the U.S. Nearly half of all the deportees had clean records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his dusty, wheeled backpack, Jimenez carries an assortment of tools: a cement mixing tray, a round saw, a trowel, hammers and more. He purchased most of his equipment in Mexico so he could do any job offered to him. Like many other migrants, he was deported \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/12/10/369893574/some-deportees-return-to-mexico-but-their-stuff-stays-in-the-u-s\" rel=\"external\">without his belongings.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm illegal all over again here because I don't have any papers,\" he said. \"I don’t have anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mexico, Jimenez has no choice but to join the informal economy like most other deportees. He toils full days in the heat for the equivalent of $10 or $15. It’s not enough to pay rent and still eat, so he sleeps under a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10531730\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/CesarinTijuana-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Cesar Jimenez Sanchez has waited daily at this corner outside a Costco in Tijuana for the past five years, hoping to pick up odd jobs. He was deported following a DUI arrest, leaving behind a wife and eight children in the U.S.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10531730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/CesarinTijuana-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/CesarinTijuana-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/CesarinTijuana-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/CesarinTijuana-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/CesarinTijuana-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/CesarinTijuana.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Jimenez Sanchez has waited daily at this corner outside a Costco in Tijuana for the past five years, hoping to pick up odd jobs. He was deported following a DUI arrest, leaving behind a wife and eight children in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jimenez is 45. The average age of deportees has risen over time, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement records. Today, most deportees are older than 30. Undocumented immigrants in the United States have been \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewhispanic.org/2014/09/03/as-growth-stalls-unauthorized-immigrant-population-becomes-more-settled/\" target=\"_blank\">living there longer\u003c/a>, so those who are deported now are more likely to have been long-term U.S. residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This poses a rising problem for those who want to reintegrate into the Mexican workforce. Age discrimination is rampant in Mexico, despite laws to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antonio De La Peña Hernandez is 60. He lived in the U.S. from the age of 5 until he was deported at 55. He was a truck driver north of the border but has been unable to find a formal job in Mexico. He picks up trash off the street for a few pesos a day. He says he has been robbed and beaten by Mexicans who perceive him as an outsider. He speaks English better than Spanish. His face is gaunt from the weight he has lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he talks about his desire to work, De La Peña chokes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All my life I've been working, and now I don't know where to start,\" he said through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are people in Tijuana who are trying to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that same day, at a migrant shelter called Desayunador Salesiano, De La Peña was reclining in a black leather chair, while a volunteer shaved off his salt-and-pepper beard and trimmed his hair. He said he hoped that cleaning up his look would improve his chances of getting a real job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrant shelters across Tijuana have been adapting their services to the changes in the deportee population, launching reintegration programs to help migrants find jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to offering a place to sleep and eat, shelters now offer classes in computer literacy, English and more. Many offer free haircuts so that deportees can prepare for job interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Casa del Migrante, the oldest migrant shelter in Tijuana, assists people in getting official documents such as birth certificates, setting up email addresses, writing resumes and improving their wardrobe with donated clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10531732\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Antonio de la Peña Hernandez, a deportee, gets a shave at a Tijuana migrant shelter called Desayunador Salesiano Padre Chava.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10531732\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/Hernandez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio de la Peña Hernandez, a deportee, gets a shave at a Tijuana migrant shelter called Desayunador Salesiano Padre Chava. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Rev. 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"content": "\u003cp>Few sentences may have ever captured California's bizarre sales tax rules better than the one in a new report from the state's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A sandwich purchased to go,\" says the report, \"may shift from tax-exempt to taxable if the customer chooses to have the bread toasted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously? \u003cem>Toasted bread and the price of the sandwich goes up?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason is buried deep in a system that's so full of what feels like Byzantine requirements and exclusions that it has sparked a steady chorus of voices -- for years -- to remake the sales tax system. Into what, you ask? Something that's more uniform, more broadly applied, and probably set at a lower rate. And this year, that chorus seems to be a little louder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/sales-tax/understanding-sales-tax-050615.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">LAO report offers some fascinating detail into how we got here\u003c/a>, and what the sales tax -- technically, a sales and use tax -- means to local and state government. In short: California first imposed a sales tax in 1933 and now averages about 8.5 percent (rates vary because some cities and counties place their own local tax on top of the state's base sales tax).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have gradually raised the state rate or shifted its allocations, often in reaction to whopping budget deficits. And voters approved a temporary boost in the state's portion through \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_30,_Sales_and_Income_Tax_Increase_%282012%29\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 30 in 2012 \u003c/a>-- a boost that is scheduled to expire at the end of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales Tax: Slow and Steady\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales tax used to be the most important source of state government revenue, but was long ago eclipsed by personal income tax, which now provides two-thirds of California's general fund tax dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sales tax often gets labeled with the two \"R's\": reliable and regressive. On reliability, it's proved to be far less volatile than income tax revenues; the LAO report calculates annual sales tax growth since 1970-71 (after adjusting for inflation and rate changes) at only about 1.4 percent. Critics, though, argue it's also the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/1998/03/taxes-gale\" target=\"_blank\">regressive tax\u003c/a> -- in that low-income Californians, who pay the same sales tax rate as everyone else, end up paying a higher share of their income to sales taxes than the more wealthy. In contrast, the personal income tax increases along with wages -- a more progressive structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK, enough background. The fact is that the sales tax is imposed in ways that can make your head spin: Sales tax on hot but not cold foods; sales tax on a newspaper subscription but not one to a magazine; sales tax on a new car but not on car maintenance or repair services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there were the great sales tax fights of days gone by, like the 1991 law that deemed bottled water and candy as non-foods, which then led to a quirky political campaign in 1992 for Proposition 163, which repealed the \"snack tax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 569px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10518245 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/salestx.jpg\" alt=\"salestx\" width=\"569\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/salestx.jpg 569w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/salestx-400x570.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's sales tax rules are, to put it mildly, confusing. (Graphic: Legislative Analyst's Office) \u003ccite>(Graphic: Legislative Analyst's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the broader issue is that California's sales tax remains largely focused on goods and not services, while the state's economy has decidedly shifted toward more growth and reliance on services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So ... does that mean changes are overdue? Or, more importantly, are they politically doable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Broadening Sales Taxes: Big Money, Big Political Hurdles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of buzz about new efforts in Sacramento to overhaul the sales tax system, but they are really a continuation of a discussion that began in the depths of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his proposed 2009-2010 budget, Gov. 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For most of 2009, the bipartisan commission contemplated and clashed over the idea of a vastly different sales tax -- one that would be completely redesigned with an eye on flattening and expanding to more sectors of the economy. The commission called it a \"business net receipts tax,\" and it was often described as looking something like the \u003ca href=\"http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/how_vat_works/index_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">European value added tax\u003c/a> (VAT).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the idea was hammered by liberal groups and on opinion pages as too much of a new burden on low-income Californians. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cotce.ca.gov/documents/reports/documents/Commission_on_the_21st_Century_Economy-Final_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">415-page Parsky Commission report\u003c/a> landed with a thud in the state Capitol, where's it's been gathering dust ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2015's version of the debate is the work-in-progress \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_8_bill_20150210_amended_sen_v98.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 8\u003c/a> by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), \u003ca href=\"http://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/1122015-sen-bob-hertzberg-pushes-plan-modernize-california%E2%80%99s-tax-structure-promote-upward\" target=\"_blank\">an omnibus tax overhaul proposal\u003c/a> that's generated a lot of discussion -- so much that some think it could provide the basis of a 2016 ballot initiative if the Legislature takes a pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hertzberg, a former Assembly speaker who spent a few years leading the bipartisan think tank California Forward, has become a passionate activist for getting away from the traditional sales tax structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtLHl7E6J54?start=236]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The economy's changed,\" said Hertzberg earlier this year in a Senate Democratic caucus video. \"If you're a lawyer, if you're an accountant, if you're an engineer, if you're a political consultant, those are services which should be taxed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB8 has yet to get an actual vote in the Senate, and its prospects are a bit unclear. Even so, it's generated some interesting discussion.That included \u003ca href=\"http://www.boe.ca.gov/news/2015/35-15-G.htm\" target=\"_blank\">an analysis in mid-April by the state Board of Equalization that suggested a broad sales tax could produce $122.6 billion in revenues\u003c/a> -- a whopper of an amount, and one that sent \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2015/04/boe-study-on-service-taxes-sets-off-debate/\" target=\"_blank\">critics of sales tax changes into a tizzy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether any of this results in actual change remains to be seen. In fact, the most likely sales tax changes from the state Capitol in 2015 are special exclusions, like \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a80/news-room/press-releases/assemblywoman-lorena-gonzalez-proposes-elimination-of-california-s-diaper-tax\" target=\"_blank\">a high-profile effort to exempt diapers from items that are charged a sales tax\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the broader debate raises important questions about the relationship between California's economy and its tax structure -- a relationship that seems to be changing all the time, and redefining who bears which part of the load when it comes to California's tax burden.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have gradually raised the state rate or shifted its allocations, often in reaction to whopping budget deficits. And voters approved a temporary boost in the state's portion through \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_30,_Sales_and_Income_Tax_Increase_%282012%29\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 30 in 2012 \u003c/a>-- a boost that is scheduled to expire at the end of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales Tax: Slow and Steady\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales tax used to be the most important source of state government revenue, but was long ago eclipsed by personal income tax, which now provides two-thirds of California's general fund tax dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sales tax often gets labeled with the two \"R's\": reliable and regressive. On reliability, it's proved to be far less volatile than income tax revenues; the LAO report calculates annual sales tax growth since 1970-71 (after adjusting for inflation and rate changes) at only about 1.4 percent. Critics, though, argue it's also the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/1998/03/taxes-gale\" target=\"_blank\">regressive tax\u003c/a> -- in that low-income Californians, who pay the same sales tax rate as everyone else, end up paying a higher share of their income to sales taxes than the more wealthy. In contrast, the personal income tax increases along with wages -- a more progressive structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK, enough background. The fact is that the sales tax is imposed in ways that can make your head spin: Sales tax on hot but not cold foods; sales tax on a newspaper subscription but not one to a magazine; sales tax on a new car but not on car maintenance or repair services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there were the great sales tax fights of days gone by, like the 1991 law that deemed bottled water and candy as non-foods, which then led to a quirky political campaign in 1992 for Proposition 163, which repealed the \"snack tax.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10518245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 569px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10518245 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/salestx.jpg\" alt=\"salestx\" width=\"569\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/salestx.jpg 569w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/salestx-400x570.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's sales tax rules are, to put it mildly, confusing. (Graphic: Legislative Analyst's Office) \u003ccite>(Graphic: Legislative Analyst's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the broader issue is that California's sales tax remains largely focused on goods and not services, while the state's economy has decidedly shifted toward more growth and reliance on services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So ... does that mean changes are overdue? Or, more importantly, are they politically doable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Broadening Sales Taxes: Big Money, Big Political Hurdles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of buzz about new efforts in Sacramento to overhaul the sales tax system, but they are really a continuation of a discussion that began in the depths of the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his proposed 2009-2010 budget, Gov. 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For most of 2009, the bipartisan commission contemplated and clashed over the idea of a vastly different sales tax -- one that would be completely redesigned with an eye on flattening and expanding to more sectors of the economy. The commission called it a \"business net receipts tax,\" and it was often described as looking something like the \u003ca href=\"http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/how_vat_works/index_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\">European value added tax\u003c/a> (VAT).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the idea was hammered by liberal groups and on opinion pages as too much of a new burden on low-income Californians. 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"content": "\u003cp>This year marks the 125th anniversary of Japantown in San Jose. To celebrate, the neighborhood will host a festival called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nikkeimatsuri.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikkei Matsuri\u003c/a> this coming Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is one of only three historic Japantowns still thriving in the United States, and the only one rooted in the history of California agriculture. In a time before semiconductor chips and suburban housing, the region in and around San Jose was largely farmland, much of it farmed by Japanese-American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Japantown was the heart of the community, and that’s where you’ll find the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jamsj.org/japanese-american-history-museum-san-jose/resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japanese American Museum of San Jose\u003c/a>. Jimi Yamaichi, 92, is one of the curators of the museum’s exhibition on Japanese farming. But more than that, he himself used to work the fields northeast of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459646 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. \"It was hard living.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. ‘It was hard living.’ \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi vividly remembers what it was like to grow up on his dad’s row crop farm in Berryessa during the Great Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beans, cucumbers and squash and other bell peppers, and tomatoes, and other things. But the beans and cucumber, that’s what he was known for,” Yamaichi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to supplying local markets, the Yamaichis sent 200 boxes to Los Angeles on Tuesdays, and another 200 on Saturdays. They shipped produce as far as Denver and Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimi was the fourth child out of 10. It was a working childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d get up early in the morning, at 6 o’clock, and we’d cut lettuce for about two hours,” he recalls. “Around 8:30, my dad says, ‘Well, go and clean up.’ ” You can listen to him tell his story \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/rmyrow/japaneseag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dad drove them to elementary school in time for the 9 o’clock bell, then picked them up when school was out at 3 to return to the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not the only ones doing it,” Yamaichi says. “Everybody else was doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not everyone. The non-Japanese farmers, he admits, didn’t work quite so hard, and they didn’t necessarily take kindly to the Japanese-Americans who did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459648 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A produce crate from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A produce crate from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, there are just a handful of Japanese-owned farms and nurseries in the region. But at one time, before World War II, the area around San Jose was dotted with hundreds of Japanese farms growing vegetables for local and regional markets. The story of why they were here, and how they were here, is one of sorrow and suffering, but also success against the odds and the weight of fierce prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime around 1890, Japanese laborers escaping the grim plantation work of Hawaii began to settle around San Jose. Especially after the \u003ca href=\"ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=10459596&action=edit&message=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>, white farmers were eager for alternative sources of cheap labor to pick crops. Some Japanese immigrants saved enough money to buy their own farmland, but California changed the law, several times, to make it close to impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbia University Professor \u003ca href=\"https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/gary-okihiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Gary Okihiro\u003c/a> co-wrote a history of Japanese farming in the Santa Clara Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land laws were called \u003ca href=\"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alien land laws\u003c/a>,” he says, “because they were directed at aliens ineligible for citizenship, which meant only Asian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Japanese had no choice but to work as sharecroppers. Others set up land trusts, or began to have American-born children in the hopes that the first to reach maturity would be able to own the farm for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the farmers were farming on land that did not belong to them, in fact, but to some other person, a white landowner,” Okihiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1929, Jimi Yamaichi’s father, Kaneichi Yamaichi, found a way around California law: a white man willing to own 21 acres for him — in exchange for a “royalty,” which today would amount to more than $27,000 a year, staked on nothing more than a handshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of World War II, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/asc/projects/sanjose/Part_of_San_Jose_History.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly 4,000\u003c/a> Japanese lived in the Santa Clara Valley. They were just beginning to bounce back from the Great Depression when the federal government forced them into internment camps away from the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVyIa11ZtAE]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This short film from the United States Office Of War Information — produced as part of the government effort to justify uprooting 120,000 people of Japanese descent — puts a somewhat sunny spin on \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Executive Order 9066\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Japanese sent to camps in 1942 had to liquidate everything they couldn’t carry with them, and at fire-sale prices: farms, homes, cars, businesses. Japanese-Americans left $22 million of crops in the ground across California. The government saw to it that those crops were harvested, but not that the farmers were compensated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the war was over, many of them returned home destitute and demoralized. They converted buildings in San Jose’s Japantown into makeshift barracks while they figured out what to do next. KTEH broadcast a compelling documentary about that period in history, called “Return to the Valley.” Jimi Yamaichi is one of the people featured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muvqPCy1j_0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi’s family spent the war years in the internment camps at \u003ca href=\"http://www.heartmountain.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heart Mountain\u003c/a> in Wyoming and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/tule/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tule Lake\u003c/a> in California. Jimi’s dad was better off than most. A sympathetic insurance agent he’d worked with offered to guard his farm. But that doesn’t mean it was easy to start all over again when the war was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ’Course, he was quite a heavy drinker,” Yamaichi says. “They were all drinkers, you know. Got to the point where it pickled him to death, I think!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many in the Japan-born generation known as \u003cem>issei\u003c/em>, Kaneichi Yamaichi kept a lot of feelings about his life bottled up inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sake was his drink of choice, and when the war broke out, couldn’t get no more,” Jimi Yamaichi says. “He turned to whiskey. One fifth a day. That’s a lot of whiskey to drink, hunh?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the war, American farming was growing increasingly mechanized, moving from horses to tractors, requiring bigger farms to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the American-born \u003cem>nisei,\u003c/em> like Jimi Yamaichi, wanted out of farming. But younger children followed their parents onto new fields, raising labor-intensive crops they could produce on small plots of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459653 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Today, there's almost no evidence how prevalent Japanese farms once were in and around San Jose. A map from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese American farms in the area around 1958.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese-American farms in the area around 1958.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon Kimura was one of those children, back in the 1950s. “I picked 10 crates of strawberries to get money to buy my first Timex watch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where did Kimura go to get the watch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to here to Japantown to Jackson Jewelers [now defunct],” Kimura says. “There always was a feeling that this was home for the JA community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as the rise of Silicon Valley made land more expensive, the strawberry industry moved south to Watsonville and Salinas. The flower business \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpnmag.com/california-cut-flower-industry-still-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved overseas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each passing generation, it became easier for Japanese-Americans to find work outside of agriculture — and to buy homes in neighborhoods previously closed to them. More and more of the community in the Santa Clara Valley dispersed across the Bay Area, California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japantown San Jose is still a cultural center, with churches, restaurants, shops and, of course, the museum. But it doesn’t have quite the vibrancy that Kimura remembers from his childhood. “Maybe it’s a function of, if you will, at becoming too successful integrating into mainstream America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the love cuts both ways now. Japantown San Jose has become a fond focal point for the whole city, one locals proudly point to as part of their collective heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10460214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"On April 26th, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-400x290.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1440x1046.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-320x232.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg 1902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On April 26, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary \u003ccite>(Takahiro Kitamura)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This year marks the 125th anniversary of Japantown in San Jose. To celebrate, the neighborhood will host a festival called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nikkeimatsuri.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikkei Matsuri\u003c/a> this coming Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is one of only three historic Japantowns still thriving in the United States, and the only one rooted in the history of California agriculture. In a time before semiconductor chips and suburban housing, the region in and around San Jose was largely farmland, much of it farmed by Japanese-American families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Japantown was the heart of the community, and that’s where you’ll find the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jamsj.org/japanese-american-history-museum-san-jose/resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japanese American Museum of San Jose\u003c/a>. Jimi Yamaichi, 92, is one of the curators of the museum’s exhibition on Japanese farming. But more than that, he himself used to work the fields northeast of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459646 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. \"It was hard living.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14529_JimiToday.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 92, Jimi Yamaichi remembers row crop farming in Berryessa before World War II. ‘It was hard living.’ \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi vividly remembers what it was like to grow up on his dad’s row crop farm in Berryessa during the Great Depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Beans, cucumbers and squash and other bell peppers, and tomatoes, and other things. But the beans and cucumber, that’s what he was known for,” Yamaichi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to supplying local markets, the Yamaichis sent 200 boxes to Los Angeles on Tuesdays, and another 200 on Saturdays. They shipped produce as far as Denver and Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimi was the fourth child out of 10. It was a working childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d get up early in the morning, at 6 o’clock, and we’d cut lettuce for about two hours,” he recalls. “Around 8:30, my dad says, ‘Well, go and clean up.’ ” You can listen to him tell his story \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/rmyrow/japaneseag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dad drove them to elementary school in time for the 9 o’clock bell, then picked them up when school was out at 3 to return to the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not the only ones doing it,” Yamaichi says. “Everybody else was doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not everyone. The non-Japanese farmers, he admits, didn’t work quite so hard, and they didn’t necessarily take kindly to the Japanese-Americans who did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459648 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A produce crate from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14528_ProduceCrate-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A produce crate from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, there are just a handful of Japanese-owned farms and nurseries in the region. But at one time, before World War II, the area around San Jose was dotted with hundreds of Japanese farms growing vegetables for local and regional markets. The story of why they were here, and how they were here, is one of sorrow and suffering, but also success against the odds and the weight of fierce prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometime around 1890, Japanese laborers escaping the grim plantation work of Hawaii began to settle around San Jose. Especially after the \u003ca href=\"ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=10459596&action=edit&message=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882\u003c/a>, white farmers were eager for alternative sources of cheap labor to pick crops. Some Japanese immigrants saved enough money to buy their own farmland, but California changed the law, several times, to make it close to impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbia University Professor \u003ca href=\"https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/gary-okihiro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Gary Okihiro\u003c/a> co-wrote a history of Japanese farming in the Santa Clara Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land laws were called \u003ca href=\"http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alien land laws\u003c/a>,” he says, “because they were directed at aliens ineligible for citizenship, which meant only Asian people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Japanese had no choice but to work as sharecroppers. Others set up land trusts, or began to have American-born children in the hopes that the first to reach maturity would be able to own the farm for the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the farmers were farming on land that did not belong to them, in fact, but to some other person, a white landowner,” Okihiro says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1929, Jimi Yamaichi’s father, Kaneichi Yamaichi, found a way around California law: a white man willing to own 21 acres for him — in exchange for a “royalty,” which today would amount to more than $27,000 a year, staked on nothing more than a handshake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of World War II, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonoma.edu/asc/projects/sanjose/Part_of_San_Jose_History.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly 4,000\u003c/a> Japanese lived in the Santa Clara Valley. They were just beginning to bounce back from the Great Depression when the federal government forced them into internment camps away from the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yVyIa11ZtAE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yVyIa11ZtAE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This short film from the United States Office Of War Information — produced as part of the government effort to justify uprooting 120,000 people of Japanese descent — puts a somewhat sunny spin on \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Executive Order 9066\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Japanese sent to camps in 1942 had to liquidate everything they couldn’t carry with them, and at fire-sale prices: farms, homes, cars, businesses. Japanese-Americans left $22 million of crops in the ground across California. The government saw to it that those crops were harvested, but not that the farmers were compensated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the war was over, many of them returned home destitute and demoralized. They converted buildings in San Jose’s Japantown into makeshift barracks while they figured out what to do next. KTEH broadcast a compelling documentary about that period in history, called “Return to the Valley.” Jimi Yamaichi is one of the people featured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/muvqPCy1j_0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/muvqPCy1j_0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamaichi’s family spent the war years in the internment camps at \u003ca href=\"http://www.heartmountain.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heart Mountain\u003c/a> in Wyoming and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/tule/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tule Lake\u003c/a> in California. Jimi’s dad was better off than most. A sympathetic insurance agent he’d worked with offered to guard his farm. But that doesn’t mean it was easy to start all over again when the war was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ’Course, he was quite a heavy drinker,” Yamaichi says. “They were all drinkers, you know. Got to the point where it pickled him to death, I think!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many in the Japan-born generation known as \u003cem>issei\u003c/em>, Kaneichi Yamaichi kept a lot of feelings about his life bottled up inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sake was his drink of choice, and when the war broke out, couldn’t get no more,” Jimi Yamaichi says. “He turned to whiskey. One fifth a day. That’s a lot of whiskey to drink, hunh?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the war, American farming was growing increasingly mechanized, moving from horses to tractors, requiring bigger farms to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the American-born \u003cem>nisei,\u003c/em> like Jimi Yamaichi, wanted out of farming. But younger children followed their parents onto new fields, raising labor-intensive crops they could produce on small plots of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10459653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10459653 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Today, there's almost no evidence how prevalent Japanese farms once were in and around San Jose. A map from the exhibit 'Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,' at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese American farms in the area around 1958.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14527_JapaneseFarmMap.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map from the exhibition ‘Yesterday’s Farmer: Planting an American Dream,’ at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose highlights Japanese-American farms in the area around 1958.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon Kimura was one of those children, back in the 1950s. “I picked 10 crates of strawberries to get money to buy my first Timex watch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where did Kimura go to get the watch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came to here to Japantown to Jackson Jewelers [now defunct],” Kimura says. “There always was a feeling that this was home for the JA community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, as the rise of Silicon Valley made land more expensive, the strawberry industry moved south to Watsonville and Salinas. The flower business \u003ca href=\"http://www.gpnmag.com/california-cut-flower-industry-still-decline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moved overseas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With each passing generation, it became easier for Japanese-Americans to find work outside of agriculture — and to buy homes in neighborhoods previously closed to them. More and more of the community in the Santa Clara Valley dispersed across the Bay Area, California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japantown San Jose is still a cultural center, with churches, restaurants, shops and, of course, the museum. But it doesn’t have quite the vibrancy that Kimura remembers from his childhood. “Maybe it’s a function of, if you will, at becoming too successful integrating into mainstream America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the love cuts both ways now. Japantown San Jose has become a fond focal point for the whole city, one locals proudly point to as part of their collective heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10460214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"On April 26th, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-400x290.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1440x1046.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut-320x232.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14530_125th-koi-front001-qut.jpg 1902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On April 26, Japantown San Jose hosts a festival called Nikkei Matsuri, to celebrate its 125th anniversary \u003ccite>(Takahiro Kitamura)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bitcoin has been around for six years now, but most of us are still unclear on just \u003cem>what\u003c/em> it is, let alone why it matters. The digital currency has been flying under the radar, appealing to a group of die-hard fans, like libertarians who want freedom from government control, and illegal drug traders — who also want freedom from government control. But that Wild West world is giving way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201248386″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you work in Silicon Valley, as Ryan Singer does, you can appreciate what it feels like to be excited about something much of the rest of the world has never heard of. Singer’s startup, \u003ca href=\"http://domustower.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Domus Tower\u003c/a>, is developing Bitcoin technology that will speed up stock trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He understands that Bitcoin sounds new and strange and possibly scary, and ticks off some frequently heard concerns: “Are your identities safe on it? Are children safe on it? Is it a method for spreading pornography? That was basically all anyone said about the Internet until suddenly it became normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10492904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10492904 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Singer is a Bitcoin believer. Not only does he run a Bitcoin startup called Domus Tower, but he also pays his rent in Bitcoin at 20Mission, a live/work space designed to draw in tech entrepreneurs like himself.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Singer is a Bitcoin believer. Not only does he run a Bitcoin startup called Domus Tower, but he also pays his rent in Bitcoin at 20Mission, a live/work space designed to draw in tech entrepreneurs like himself. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bitcoin is hardly “normal” – yet. Lots of people have reasons to distrust it, thanks to a string of high-profile scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silk-road-ross-ulbricht-verdict/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Convicted of All 7 Charges\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"content__headline js-score\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/18/mtgox-bitcoin-exchange-reopens-so-users-can-stare-listlessly-at-their-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MtGox bitcoin exchange reopens so users can stare listlessly at their loss\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"content__headline js-score\">\u003ca href=\"http://gu.com/p/46mjb/stw%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitcoin ‘exit scam’: deep-web market operators disappear with $12 million\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As a result, Bitcoin’s value has careened wildly from north of $1,200 at the top (in 2013) to less than $230 now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scams and scandals aside, people are curious. Bitcoin was the No. 4 Google search question last year in San Francisco and Oakland. As in, “What is Bitcoin?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So: What \u003cem>is\u003c/em> Bitcoin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s money, tradable like dollars or gold, but there’s no central bank, no controlling institution. A distributed network of computers keeps track of who owns what and where. And these days, you can buy a lot more than illegal drugs with Bitcoin, like a \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/2013/12/tesla-bitcoin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla Model S\u003c/a> or a new couch at \u003ca href=\"http://www.overstock.com/bitcoin?keywords=bitcoin&searchtype=Header\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overstock.com\u003c/a>. The more Bitcoin catches on, the more it attracts the attention of people who want to see just how far it can go. Namely, venture capitalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10492901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10492901 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Venture Capitalist Tim Draper is a big Bitcoin booster.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venture Capitalist Tim Draper is a big Bitcoin booster. ‘Bitcoin really transforms banking,’ he says, ‘and bankers are nervous.’ \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://dfj.com/content/timothy-draper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Draper\u003c/a> has invested in 35 Bitcoin startups to date, and he’s just one VC. A couple others include the famous \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/27/investing/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins-gold/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winklevoss twins\u003c/a>, Tyler and Cameron. Draper says it’s not just Bitcoin the currency that has lots of possibilities. It’s also the way that a distributed network without middle men makes all kinds of financial transactions cheaper and faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bankers are nervous,” Draper says. “Every time you buy something at the store with a credit card, the bank’s taking 2½ to 4 percent. The bank takes somewhere between 8 and 16 percent when you’re sending money to another country. Those businesses are going to be flattened by Bitcoin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or banks and the like will get in on the game, too. Already, regulators at the state and federal level are crafting laws. \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-technology/california-considers-bill-setting-virtual-currency-guidelines-1073083-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One bill\u003c/a> in the California Assembly would establish the first guidelines for people and companies keen to use virtual currency here. New York’s moving \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/press2014/pr1407171-vc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even faster\u003c/a>, because Wall Street is \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/29/interest-in-bitcoin-grows-on-wall-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already getting in\u003c/a> on the Bitcoin boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brito runs \u003ca href=\"https://coincenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coin Center\u003c/a>, a Bitcoin research outfit in Washington, D.C., which reported last month that 6.2 percent of U.S. survey respondents say they’ve used Bitcoin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, there are now Bitcoin derivatives and Bitcoin \u003ca href=\"http://www.coindesk.com/former-goldman-director-launches-bitcoin-derivatives-exchange/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">derivative exchanges\u003c/a> (approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission) where you can trade Bitcoin options of different kinds. And if you wanted to invest in Bitcoin, you would not have to hold the Bitcoin itself. You could simply invest in a fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be greater regulatory certainty,” Brito adds. “Right now, we’re getting there. At the federal level, the Treasury Department has issued guidance that explains how Bitcoin businesses must comply with the Bank Secrecy Act, with anti-money-laundering and Know Your Customer regulations, and there are companies today that are venture-backed, that are run by serious people, and are complying with those regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below: Venture capitalist Tim Draper talks about Bitcoin.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201191512&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bitcoin has been around for six years now, but most of us are still unclear on just \u003cem>what\u003c/em> it is, let alone why it matters. The digital currency has been flying under the radar, appealing to a group of die-hard fans, like libertarians who want freedom from government control, and illegal drug traders — who also want freedom from government control. But that Wild West world is giving way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201248386″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201248386″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you work in Silicon Valley, as Ryan Singer does, you can appreciate what it feels like to be excited about something much of the rest of the world has never heard of. Singer’s startup, \u003ca href=\"http://domustower.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Domus Tower\u003c/a>, is developing Bitcoin technology that will speed up stock trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He understands that Bitcoin sounds new and strange and possibly scary, and ticks off some frequently heard concerns: “Are your identities safe on it? Are children safe on it? Is it a method for spreading pornography? That was basically all anyone said about the Internet until suddenly it became normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10492904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10492904 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Singer is a Bitcoin believer. Not only does he run a Bitcoin startup called Domus Tower, but he also pays his rent in Bitcoin at 20Mission, a live/work space designed to draw in tech entrepreneurs like himself.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14865_RyanSinger.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Singer is a Bitcoin believer. Not only does he run a Bitcoin startup called Domus Tower, but he also pays his rent in Bitcoin at 20Mission, a live/work space designed to draw in tech entrepreneurs like himself. \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bitcoin is hardly “normal” – yet. Lots of people have reasons to distrust it, thanks to a string of high-profile scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/2015/02/silk-road-ross-ulbricht-verdict/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Convicted of All 7 Charges\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"content__headline js-score\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/18/mtgox-bitcoin-exchange-reopens-so-users-can-stare-listlessly-at-their-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MtGox bitcoin exchange reopens so users can stare listlessly at their loss\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"content__headline js-score\">\u003ca href=\"http://gu.com/p/46mjb/stw%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitcoin ‘exit scam’: deep-web market operators disappear with $12 million\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As a result, Bitcoin’s value has careened wildly from north of $1,200 at the top (in 2013) to less than $230 now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scams and scandals aside, people are curious. Bitcoin was the No. 4 Google search question last year in San Francisco and Oakland. As in, “What is Bitcoin?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So: What \u003cem>is\u003c/em> Bitcoin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s money, tradable like dollars or gold, but there’s no central bank, no controlling institution. A distributed network of computers keeps track of who owns what and where. And these days, you can buy a lot more than illegal drugs with Bitcoin, like a \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/2013/12/tesla-bitcoin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla Model S\u003c/a> or a new couch at \u003ca href=\"http://www.overstock.com/bitcoin?keywords=bitcoin&searchtype=Header\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overstock.com\u003c/a>. The more Bitcoin catches on, the more it attracts the attention of people who want to see just how far it can go. Namely, venture capitalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10492901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10492901 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Venture Capitalist Tim Draper is a big Bitcoin booster.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14866_TimDraper-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venture Capitalist Tim Draper is a big Bitcoin booster. ‘Bitcoin really transforms banking,’ he says, ‘and bankers are nervous.’ \u003ccite>(Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://dfj.com/content/timothy-draper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Draper\u003c/a> has invested in 35 Bitcoin startups to date, and he’s just one VC. A couple others include the famous \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/27/investing/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins-gold/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winklevoss twins\u003c/a>, Tyler and Cameron. Draper says it’s not just Bitcoin the currency that has lots of possibilities. It’s also the way that a distributed network without middle men makes all kinds of financial transactions cheaper and faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bankers are nervous,” Draper says. “Every time you buy something at the store with a credit card, the bank’s taking 2½ to 4 percent. The bank takes somewhere between 8 and 16 percent when you’re sending money to another country. Those businesses are going to be flattened by Bitcoin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or banks and the like will get in on the game, too. Already, regulators at the state and federal level are crafting laws. \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-technology/california-considers-bill-setting-virtual-currency-guidelines-1073083-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One bill\u003c/a> in the California Assembly would establish the first guidelines for people and companies keen to use virtual currency here. New York’s moving \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/press2014/pr1407171-vc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even faster\u003c/a>, because Wall Street is \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/29/interest-in-bitcoin-grows-on-wall-street/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already getting in\u003c/a> on the Bitcoin boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brito runs \u003ca href=\"https://coincenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coin Center\u003c/a>, a Bitcoin research outfit in Washington, D.C., which reported last month that 6.2 percent of U.S. survey respondents say they’ve used Bitcoin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, there are now Bitcoin derivatives and Bitcoin \u003ca href=\"http://www.coindesk.com/former-goldman-director-launches-bitcoin-derivatives-exchange/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">derivative exchanges\u003c/a> (approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission) where you can trade Bitcoin options of different kinds. And if you wanted to invest in Bitcoin, you would not have to hold the Bitcoin itself. You could simply invest in a fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There needs to be greater regulatory certainty,” Brito adds. “Right now, we’re getting there. At the federal level, the Treasury Department has issued guidance that explains how Bitcoin businesses must comply with the Bank Secrecy Act, with anti-money-laundering and Know Your Customer regulations, and there are companies today that are venture-backed, that are run by serious people, and are complying with those regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Below: Venture capitalist Tim Draper talks about Bitcoin.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/201191512&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Taxes have always been pretty easy for Enrique. He received W-2s, did the calculations himself and usually got a nice return. Then last year all that changed, after he signed up to drive for Lyft and Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The income Enrique earns from driving for these ride-service companies makes him a sort of independent contractor, which raises a lot more tax questions than working as an employee does. Now Enrique has to keep track of his income and deductions, maintain records and save receipts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a brand-new world,” Enrique says. And he's still trying to figure it all out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/01/HarnettGigWorkerTaxes2015.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrique does not want to use his full name because he is afraid the companies won't appreciate his criticism. He says it's pretty much all up to the drivers to figure out everything about this job -- what's legal, what's safe and how to do the taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've got firsthand experience for this story. Last winter I drove some for Lyft. I was interviewing passengers to make a podcast. I've worked as a freelancer for years, so I was used to handling more complicated taxes. But that is not the case for Enrique.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Albert Einstein once said, 'The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.'\u003ccite>Quote on Lyft website\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Like many new gig workers, Enrique has never owned a business nor been an independent contractor. He is unsure what to deduct and what records to keep. He says it is hard to get the information he needs. That's why he met with tax adviser Matthew Whatley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft provide drivers with statistics about their rides, but on their websites they urge drivers to seek professional tax advice. Whatley says people who come to him, like Enrique, are unprepared come tax time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've never seen a single person from Lyft or Uber come in that had any idea of what their tax liability was or what kind of records to keep,\" Whatley says. \"Not one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxes for this new kind of gig work are confusing, Whatley says. Not every gig company handles taxes the same way. Sometimes workers get tax forms stating their income; other times they don’t. Some drivers haven’t paid taxes for a few years, he says. Others are paying more than they should.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people are literally thrown to the wolves,” Whatley says. “They are being put in a tax meat grinder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I've never seen a single person from Lyft or Uber come in that had any idea of what kind of records to keep. Not one.'\u003ccite>Matthew Whatley, tax adviser\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Whatley says many don't realize the extra load put on contractors when it comes to taxes. First, contractors have higher tax burdens than employees. That's because for employees, companies pay half the Social Security and Medicare taxes. Contractors also have to keep their own records -- mileage logs, gas receipts and other deductible expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all a surprisingly big obligation the companies are not upfront about, Enrique says. The advertisements soliciting drivers say how much they will make hourly -- before expenses, taxes and the time spent maintaining records and figuring out deductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10490041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 408px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10490041\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut-800x789.jpg\" alt=\"RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut\" width=\"408\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut-800x789.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut-400x394.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut-768x757.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut-320x316.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/RS14829_Uber-screen-shot-qut.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot of an Uber ad promising hourly rates.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the things gig workers like Enrique have to figure out is a relatively new tax form, \u003ca href=\"http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Understanding-Your-1099-K\">the 1099-K\u003c/a>. It is different from the 1099 form contractors normally use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1099-K shows total credit card transactions, in this case between the riders and the company. Drivers then have to subtract expenses like tolls and fees they pay to Uber and Lyft. This makes it trickier for drivers to keep track of income, says Patricia Cain, law professor at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain gives this example: Let's say a driver earns $18,000 of income, but there was $3,500 in fees and tolls that Uber charged to riders. The 1099-K the driver receives would show $21,500 gross income because that was the total of credit card transactions between the riders and Uber. The driver would then have to account for all the expenses that make up the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain says 1099-Ks were not originally designed for this kind of gig work. They were \u003ca href=\"https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Small-Business-Taxes/What-Online-Business-Owners-Should-Know-About-IRS-Form-1099-K/INF23095.html\">developed in 2008\u003c/a> to track income that people make from sites like eBay and Etsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QwPotqqcCCuLX84WYC4OjvxYI3qcMpUR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, why are these gig companies using the new forms? In an email, Lyft wrote that the 1099-K complies with tax rules. Uber did not respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=7232\" target=\"_blank\">David Gamage\u003c/a> is a professor of tax law at UC Berkeley. He says the 1099-K could be part of a business strategy. 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Not one.'\u003ccite>Matthew Whatley, tax adviser\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Whatley says many don't realize the extra load put on contractors when it comes to taxes. First, contractors have higher tax burdens than employees. That's because for employees, companies pay half the Social Security and Medicare taxes. Contractors also have to keep their own records -- mileage logs, gas receipts and other deductible expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all a surprisingly big obligation the companies are not upfront about, Enrique says. 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It is different from the 1099 form contractors normally use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1099-K shows total credit card transactions, in this case between the riders and the company. Drivers then have to subtract expenses like tolls and fees they pay to Uber and Lyft. This makes it trickier for drivers to keep track of income, says Patricia Cain, law professor at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain gives this example: Let's say a driver earns $18,000 of income, but there was $3,500 in fees and tolls that Uber charged to riders. The 1099-K the driver receives would show $21,500 gross income because that was the total of credit card transactions between the riders and Uber. The driver would then have to account for all the expenses that make up the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cain says 1099-Ks were not originally designed for this kind of gig work. 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